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      'A Huge Deal': Biden Rebuffs Georgia's Medicaid Work Requirement--Last in US

      "By ending work requirements in many states, Biden is erasing one of Trump's cruelest legacies."

      Kenny Stancil
      Dec 24, 2021

      After the White House on Thursday rejected a proposal to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients in Georgia--the last state with a federal waiver permitting such restrictions--President Joe Biden received praise for "quietly erasing" one of his predecessor's "cruelest legacies."

      "The announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, delivered in a 79-page letter to Georgia's health agency, also reversed a federal waiver allowing the state to charge premiums for the health insurance program for the poor," according to the New York Times.

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      Cara Stewart, a legal advocate opposing Medicaid work requirements, comforts Pauline Creech in Covington, Kentucky

      Biden Urged to Withdraw All Medicaid Work Requirements Approved by Trump

      Policies to "take Medicaid coverage away from people who don't comply with stringent work requirements... are deeply harmful."

      Kenny Stancil
      Apr 05, 2021

      While the White House in recent weeks has taken steps to overturn a Trump-era initiative enabling states to restrict Medicaid eligibility by imposing punitive work requirements, healthcare advocates on Monday urged President Joe Biden to rescind all Medicaid work requirement policies approved by his predecessor.

      "Uninsurance rates among people subject to the work requirement rose, but their employment rates didn't."
      --Jennifer Wagner, CBPP

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      Seema Verma

      Biden Plans to Rescind Medicaid Work Requirements, Targeting One of Most 'Cruel' Policies of Trump Era

      "We celebrate this win—this win that we made happen—even while mourning the loss of every person who relied on Medicaid and didn't survive the calamity of Trump's disastrous administration."

      Jake Johnson
      Feb 11, 2021

      The Biden administration on Friday is expected to begin the process of rescinding a Trump policy allowing states to impose punitive work requirements on Medicaid recipients, a move celebrated as a crucial step toward reversing one of the former president's most vicious attacks on the poor and vulnerable.

      According to the Washington Post, which obtained a draft of the Biden administration's plan, federal health officials on Friday "will withdraw their predecessors' invitation to states to apply for approval to impose such work requirements and will notify 10 states granted permission that it is about to be retracted."

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